This paper attempts to offer a brief review of studies on stardom in recent years. The paper argues that the struggles between ordinariness and extraordinariness, distance and intimacy, active audience and disempowere...This paper attempts to offer a brief review of studies on stardom in recent years. The paper argues that the struggles between ordinariness and extraordinariness, distance and intimacy, active audience and disempowered audience, are all themes of studies on stardom, and the current media context, particularly that of Reality TV, raises new questions on stars from Reality TV. The implications and possible influence of these stars are discussed as well.展开更多
The marriage of cinema and fashion?When,where and how their interaction and origin is begun?There should be no glamor and red carpet when The Lumière brothers short films like Workers leaving the Lumière fac...The marriage of cinema and fashion?When,where and how their interaction and origin is begun?There should be no glamor and red carpet when The Lumière brothers short films like Workers leaving the Lumière factory,The Gardener,Baby’s Breakfast on the birth of cinema in 1895.However,we notice that artificially costumes are tailor-made for A Trip to the Moon in Georges Méliès and D.W.Griffith’s Intolerance.Suddenly,it adds the aesthetical and modernist elements into the blood of cinema beside the raw-realism of how the daily life of the common people is represented on the silver screen.Some kinds of bourgeois ideology and middle class value is enhanced.It is so unbelievable that some ordinary actress like Mary Pickford transforming into a movie star after beautifully dressing up.Not only the audience feel the power of movie magic but also the fashion magic.This paper explores the different perspective of movie and fashion in terms of fashion and film costumes,movie stars icon,fashion trends influenced by movies,and how fashion designers changes the look of cinema as well,etc.展开更多
In China, all types of stars coexist in the country＇s star system： party stars, commercialized stars, and talent-show stars, which influence diverse type audience and have diverse implications. Based on Couldry＇s f...In China, all types of stars coexist in the country＇s star system： party stars, commercialized stars, and talent-show stars, which influence diverse type audience and have diverse implications. Based on Couldry＇s framework （2000） of media power, through in-depth interviews with media professionals, this study compares the creation of party stars, commercial stars, and talent-show stars as represented by Li Yuchun. Data show that there was few audience power involved into the production of party stars and commercialized stars. Rather, there was media power involved into the production of party stars and commercialized stars. Meanwhile, this study argues that there was audience-power influence on Li Yuchun＇s rise to stardom, and it provides some details about the manipulations of media institutions that were involved in the creation of this pop star. However, it is difficult to prove that audience power is the main influence on Li＇s stardom. The implications of her stardom and this production process on China＇s star system and China＇s state power are also discussed in this study.展开更多
文摘This paper attempts to offer a brief review of studies on stardom in recent years. The paper argues that the struggles between ordinariness and extraordinariness, distance and intimacy, active audience and disempowered audience, are all themes of studies on stardom, and the current media context, particularly that of Reality TV, raises new questions on stars from Reality TV. The implications and possible influence of these stars are discussed as well.
文摘The marriage of cinema and fashion?When,where and how their interaction and origin is begun?There should be no glamor and red carpet when The Lumière brothers short films like Workers leaving the Lumière factory,The Gardener,Baby’s Breakfast on the birth of cinema in 1895.However,we notice that artificially costumes are tailor-made for A Trip to the Moon in Georges Méliès and D.W.Griffith’s Intolerance.Suddenly,it adds the aesthetical and modernist elements into the blood of cinema beside the raw-realism of how the daily life of the common people is represented on the silver screen.Some kinds of bourgeois ideology and middle class value is enhanced.It is so unbelievable that some ordinary actress like Mary Pickford transforming into a movie star after beautifully dressing up.Not only the audience feel the power of movie magic but also the fashion magic.This paper explores the different perspective of movie and fashion in terms of fashion and film costumes,movie stars icon,fashion trends influenced by movies,and how fashion designers changes the look of cinema as well,etc.
文摘In China, all types of stars coexist in the country＇s star system： party stars, commercialized stars, and talent-show stars, which influence diverse type audience and have diverse implications. Based on Couldry＇s framework （2000） of media power, through in-depth interviews with media professionals, this study compares the creation of party stars, commercial stars, and talent-show stars as represented by Li Yuchun. Data show that there was few audience power involved into the production of party stars and commercialized stars. Rather, there was media power involved into the production of party stars and commercialized stars. Meanwhile, this study argues that there was audience-power influence on Li Yuchun＇s rise to stardom, and it provides some details about the manipulations of media institutions that were involved in the creation of this pop star. However, it is difficult to prove that audience power is the main influence on Li＇s stardom. The implications of her stardom and this production process on China＇s star system and China＇s state power are also discussed in this study.
